Re: [q-lang-users] newbie question

[Á. C. C. <alv...@gm...>]

2008/7/10 Albert Graef <Dr....@t-...>:
> Hi Álvaro,
>
> sorry for the late reply. Rob answered your question already I guess. I
> just wanted to point out that most of the action is now with "Pure", the
> "next generation Q" which compiles to native code, hence programs are
> much faster. It also offers quite a few new features which make the
> language much easier to use. Pure still lacks most of Q's 3rd party
> library interfaces, but we're working on that. I'd say that the current
> version of the Pure interpreter is already quite usable, and Pure 0.5 is
> around the corner.


Hi,

Thanks for your answers! All the explanations were quite useful! I
tried axiom and wxmaxima, and actually helped me solve the problem I
had.
Anyway I'm far more interested in languages than learning programs.

Actually I first got to know Pure than Q, and it was a couple of days
ago that I saw them connected. I knew it from llvm list I guess, since
I'm a llvm user. I saw Q related to K, which are supposed to be good
languages for matrix multiplication, and somewhere said that it was
faster than plain C (well, because it vectorizes). At least K was able
to do it.

In a couple of days I'll make a Gentoo ebuild for Pure, as I couldn't
find one. There is one for Q that took me long to find (due to its
name! ;)  ). If necessary, I'll update the llvm ebuild, too. My
machine is amd64, I tried to compile Q but I couldn't.

Anyway, Q (pure) first got my attention because of the concept of
rewriting. I'll check the code when I have time to try to understand
how is it implemented, and what "rewriting" means here. I was some
time ago interested in "homoiconic" languages. Indeed, I'm working on
languages for automatic code generation, so I wanted to try Q-Pure in
this respect, especially using this "rewriting" ability. I'll think
more on this, so I can speak properly.


Regards,

álvaro


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